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Hong Kongers ‘welcome to apply to live in Taiwan’
Hong Kongers ‘welcome to apply to live in Taiwan’

(ATF) Hong Kong people and professionals are welcome to apply for long-term residence or to settle in Taiwan,...

Yuan decline accelerates. Whodunnit?
Yuan decline accelerates. Whodunnit?

(ATF) The PBoC on Wednesday morning set yuan parity at 7.1092. But that was either a serious misjudgment...

Markets jittery ahead of China’s national security law
Markets jittery ahead of China’s national security law

(ATF) Hong Kong: Financial markets are bracing for further tensions as US President Donald Trump has said he will...

Coronavirus takes huge bite out of Chinese profitability
G20 Finance Projects Give $77bn a Year to Fossil Fuels
China’s mask boom takes fabric away from nappy makers
Investors cautious on Trump’s China sanctions talk
As Japan, Germany reopen, global stocks jump; yuan stabilizes
Markets lifted by stimulus, reopenings
China lowers enterprise financing costs again

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ASML in the Centre of the Chip War

With a market cap of$240 billion, chipmaker ASML is Europe’s most valuable tech company. Its market-leading position comes from its monopoly in Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV) machines which allow chipmakers to make smaller, faster and smarter semiconductors